Edward Carrington Marshall
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4 days ago · Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on the state of Virginia; written in the year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, for the use of a foreigner of distinction, in answer to certain queries proposed by him… 1782. [Paris, Printed 1784-85].,”
May 22, 2024 · Virginia. House of Delegates; ... “She was born in 1883, three years after the community’s name was officially changed to Potomac. ... One of his more notorious kinsmen was Thomas Marshall ...
2 days ago · Patrick Henry was born on. May 29, 1736, in Studley, Virginia. He was a brilliant orator and an influential leader in the Revolutionary opposition to British government. As a young lawyer in 1763, Henry astonished his courtroom audience with an eloquent defense based on the doctrine of natural rights — the political theory that man is ...
3 days ago · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the ...
1 day ago · He was the principal author of the Land Ordinance of 1784, whereby Virginia ceded to the national government the vast area that it claimed northwest of the Ohio River. He insisted that this territory should not be used as colonial territory by any of the thirteen states, but that it should be divided into sections that could become states.
2 days ago · John Marshall (1755–1835), 4th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, he owned between seven and sixteen household slaves at various times. George Mason (1725–1792), Virginia planter, politician, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787.
2 days ago · He is a graduate of Georgetown University and is a native of Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of Taking Back The United Methodist Church , published in 2008; Methodism and Politics in the 20th Century , published in 2012; and The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to ...
